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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.1 - sorting and packaging goods and materials S6.1.1 - sorting materials or products Sort tobacco leaves
Description
Sort tobacco leaves according to colour and condition. Select the leaves with the best specifications for rolling cigars and for quality assurance. Sort tobacco leaves for manufacturing of different products such as pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Curing room workerCuring room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff. Other titles The following jo…
- Leaf sorterLeaf sorters analyse colour and condition of tobacco leaves in order to determine whether they should be used as cigar wrappers or binders. They select leaves without visible defec…
Related skills
- Quality prototype of a tobacco leaf
- Manufacturing of smokeless tobacco products
- Manufacturing of smoked tobacco products
- Variety of tobacco leaves
- Assess the colour curing of tobacco leaves
- History of tobacco
- Blend tobacco leaves
- Apply HACCP
- Assess nicotine levels in tobacco leaves
- Tobacco products
- Work in a food processing team
- Act reliably
- Liaise with managers
- Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- Curing methods for tobacco leaves
Last updated on February 19, 2026
